Collection “Criminalistics and Forensics” was included into the international scientific database of Index Copernicus

Collection “Criminalistics and Forensics” was included into the international scientific database of Index Copernicus

25 February 2019

The specialized edition of Kyiv Scientific
Research Institute of Forensic Expertise - the interdepartmental scientific and
methodical collection “Criminalistics and Forensics” was included into the
international scientific database of Index Copernicus.

Index Copernicus (IC) is an online database.
It provides of user-contributed information, including scientist profiles,
as well as of scientific institutions, publications and projects
established in 1999 in Poland, and operated by Index Copernicus International
and it has several assessment tools to track the impact of scientific works and
publications, individual scientists or research institutions.

Index Copernicus makes its own impact factor:
annually provides a detailed examination of journals included in the database.
The prerequisite for indexing in the database is a positive passage of a
multidimensional rating system, which contains more than 100 criteria.
Publications, which are positively passing through the process of parametric
assessment, receive the index of ICV (Index Copernicus Value) valid for one
year, which reflects the level of development of the publication and its
influence.

The interdepartmental scientific and methodical
collection “Criminalistics and Forensics” has existed for more than 80 years.
In the preface of its first issue, which was called “Criminalistics and Forensic
Science Expertise” was published in 1937 was said the following: “The printed organ, for us first and
foremost, a tool for scientific investigative techniques and sharing
experience, should serve the scientific opinion of our system. The
consciousness of the worker that his work will be printed is a great stimulus,
but at the same time it is not a complex of all conditions for this work to be
created”, the Editorial Board reported

From that time to the present day the edition
reflects the results of scientific research in the field of the theory and
history of forensic examination, development and improvement of methods of
various types of forensic research, examines the actual issues of investigative
tactics and methods of investigation of crimes, etc.

The inclusion in the international scientific database
of Index Copernicus was another evidence of the high scientific level of publications
of Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise. The Editorial Board
will continue to make every effort to improve it.

Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise is a leading state expert institution of Ukraine founded in 1913. The work of the Institute is guided by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Forensic Examinations", the Law of Ukraine "On scientific and technical activity" procedural laws and other laws of Ukraine, Decrees of the President of Ukraine, decrees and orders of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, orders and instructions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and other legal acts.